Kawasaki Organic Chemical Co., Ltd.'s New Vinyl Chloride Plant Completed

On January 22, at Kawasaki Organic Chemical Co., Ltd., an affiliated company which manufactures vinyl chloride, a purification ceremony was held for the VCM storage tank installation and PVC production facility expansion. As a result, Kawasaki Organic Chemical's capacity to produce PVC increased from 105,000 tons per year to 205,000 tons per year. This plant combines the latest polymerization technology used in the plant operated at Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation's Mizushima branch with Kawasaki Organic Chemical's original technology. Superior technologies were adopted not only for the high-efficiency polymerizer, which boasts high productivity, but also for the unreacted monomer recovering facility, the monomer removing tower and water recycling facility, and so forth. We can therefore rightly claim that this plant boasts a higher level of technology than those of rival companies. Kawasaki Organic Chemical's objective is for this plant to undergo trial operation in February and March and commence commercial operation in April.